Author: Lucia Schnell
Download Festival’s District X Returns as the Ultimate Playground With 2026 Line-Up Reveal Tickets for Download Festival are close to selling out — and now it’s pretty obvious why. The renowned festival doesn’t just know its way around heavy music, it also knows how to have a good time. Anyone still thinking playgrounds are just […]
Avatar Turn Columbiahalle Into a Theatrical Metal Circus — With Alien Weaponry and Agabas Igniting the Night Columbiahalle, Berlin Support: Agabas 12 March 2026: Thursday evening in Berlin’s Columbiahalle: the perfect setting for some after-work stress relief. The night opened with Agabas, a self-described death jazz outfit. Stress relief meets saxophone — or rather, exorcism […]
Korn Announce 2026 UK & Ireland Tour — First Shows in Over a Decade with Architects and Youth Code Usually, people want what’s hard to get — and Korn clearly got that message, as they disappeared from the UK for over a decade. If that rule holds true, you might want to grab tickets quickly, […]
Devin Townsend Announces Orchestral Metal Opus ‘The Moth’ — First Single ‘Enter The City’ Out Now You could say life is a marathon, not a sprint. Quality has its price — and it also takes time. A motto that Devin Townsend’s upcoming album The Moth seems to live by. After all, the project has been […]
A.A. WILLIAMS ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM “SOLSTICE” AND RELEASES NEW VIDEO FOR ‘HOLD IT TOGETHER’ Expressive abstraction mixed with fragile strength and an enveloping atmosphere – that is A.A. Williams. After a successful UK and European tour, the London artist still has more in tow: a new album, Solstice, arriving on 5 June, and a […]
Takedown Festival 2026 Names Therapy? as New Friday Headliner Just a few more nights of counting sheep and Takedown Festival will be back. But the calm before the storm never really happened — a bit of back and forth is part of the game. In true name fashion, Takedown has now taken down its […]
2000Trees Festival Finalises 2026 Line-Up with Neck Deep, Sunny Day Real Estate and More 2000Trees with what feels like 2000 acts ready to make July properly bloom. Four days, five stages — including a perfectly fitting forest stage that proves how much oxygen 2000Trees can pump into the air, and how much of it headbanging […]
ArcTanGent Festival Finalises 2026 Line-Up with Cardiacs, MØL and More All good things come in threes, and for the third and final time (at least for this year) ArcTanGent Festival updates its line-up for August 2026. The avant-garde musical mix clearly wasn’t finished yet — there are simply too many talented artists capable of filling […]
NWOBHM Veterans Raven Bring 40-Date Tour Across North America USA, take note — the sleeping beast is waking up. A piece of British metal history is crossing the ocean as Raven aim to revive the New Wave of British Heavy Metal a few decades later. They should be capable of it. After all, the Gallagher […]
Download Festival 2026 Expands Line-Up with A Day To Remember, THE PRIMALS and More The already highlight-packed line-up of Download Festival 2026 apparently hasn’t caused enough chaos yet and now releases a second wave of artists — names that are hard to greet with anything other than an approving nod. A musical mix is good. […]
Prog For Peart Festival Returns to Oxfordshire for Sixth Year A festival with heart — and a reason for it. Promised is a place that brings boutique prog and prog metal fans together. A quality that can probably be attributed to many events, but Prog For Peart truly means it and now heads into the […]
2000Trees 2026 Reveals UK Exclusives and a Genre-Spanning Line-Up for July Festival season is knocking. Just a few more months to endure, and then your spine will once again be burdened with relentless headbanging and enthusiastic nodding along. 2000Trees Festival is kindly prepared to support you through it. Renowned and repeatedly awarded, 2000Trees is here […]
